Compute Employment Rate for Temporal Periods

Calculates employment rates (proportion of time employed) within each temporal period based on vecshift employment data with overlapping contract handling.

Usage

.compute_employment_rate(
  data,
  period_type = "quarterly",
  id_var = "cf",
  start_date_var = "inizio",
  end_date_var = "fine",
  duration_var = "durata",
  employment_var = "arco",
  over_id_var = "over_id",
  use_consolidation = TRUE,
  reference_date = NULL,
  employment_threshold = 1
)

Arguments

data

data.table with employment records (vecshift format)

period_type

Character. "quarterly" or "monthly"

id_var

Character. Individual identifier column. Default: "cf"

start_date_var

Character. Contract start date column. Default: "inizio"

end_date_var

Character. Contract end date column. Default: "fine"

duration_var

Character. Contract duration column. Default: "durata"

employment_var

Character. Employment status column (arco). Default: "arco"

over_id_var

Character. Consolidation period identifier. Default: "over_id"

use_consolidation

Logical. Use over_id for consolidation? Default: TRUE

reference_date

Date. Reference date for period calculation. Default: NULL (min date)

employment_threshold

Numeric. Minimum days to consider employed in period. Default: 1

Value

data.table with employment rates by person and temporal period